Archive for June, 2006
06.26.06
Posted in My Immaculate Taste in Music at 9:07 am by Adriene
My 4G iPod mini is almost full. (When I got it three years ago, I swore that I didn’t think it was possible to fill up 4G worth of music. Guess I was wrong. Never mind that most of my CD’s still haven’t been imported into iTunes.)
Anyway, it’s about time to rotate some stuff off of it. Since I’m completely incapable of deciding what to remove, I’ve decided that I must listen to everything on it on shuffle from beginning to end. No skipping.
My reasoning is this (similar to Mike’s movie project a few months back): if I skip it, I must not like it enough to keep it on my iPod. And maybe this will free up some room to stick some of my old CD’s on there that are currently gathering dust in my CD holder.
In other news, I head out on Saturday to NC to visit some friends, and Jeff is headed out on Monday to Cornerstone.
(What does one wear to a Kelly Clarkson concert?)
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06.19.06
Posted in General, Rants at 8:47 pm by Adriene
I had a fairly traumatic experience when I was nine years old.
I was at a sleepover at my friend Tammy’s house for her birthday. Her mom had ordered some pizza, and we spent about five hours setting up Mouse Trap, then we got bored and gave up before we even played it (did anyone ever actually PLAY that game? Just about everyone I know just set it up and tried to get it to work once or twice, then gave up).
Her mom had made a stop by the local video rental store and picked up a few movies for us to watch. We took a vote to see which one we would watch first. I wanted to watch Three Men and a Baby. Unfortunately, I was outnumbered and we were forced to watch… Gremlins.
(Now, I should probably inform you that if a movie has something cute, fuzzy, and adorable turning into some otherworldly imp that enjoys feasting upon human flesh, I’m probably not going to like it. Even if the movie is supposed to be “funny.” That was true when I was a nine year old, and it is still true today.)
So, it was with a timid heart and hands clamped firmly over my eyes that I sat down to watch this movie with my so-called “friends.” (Seriously, if they were friends, they would have seen I was scared out of my wits and immediately put Three Men and a Baby on, which is what I wanted to watch in the first place.) There were periodic screams and squeals from my friends, and I pretty much just sat there whimpering the entire time.
After that night, I had nightmares about mohawk-clad gremlins wandering into my room at night and hovering over me. (I had recently conquered the fear of sleeping in a completely dark room at that time, and my mom had to begrudgingly put the night light back in my room for a while.) Eventually, I got over it somewhat and the nightmares dissipated a little.
However, about once a year, I still have a Gremlins-related nightmare. Case and point: last night.
It started out fairly harmless… I was simply upstairs in my house, when I became vaguely aware that something was not quite right. I wandered from room to room upstairs, and everything seemed to be in order. Then I decided to venture into… the basement.
As I descended the stairs, chills started running up and down my spine. I turned the corner into the family room in the basement, and there they were…. PODS!!!!! I started screaming, and luckily I woke up before one of those godforesaken things started opening.
So yeah. That’s proof that stuff that happens to you as a child can freak out out way into adulthood.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to sleep with all of the lights on tonight.
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06.14.06
Posted in General, Travels at 10:47 am by Adriene
Because I’m planning on going up to NC over July 4 weekend to hang out with some of my weird internet friends.
Oh, and we’re going to a Kelly Clarkson concert.
What have I become?
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06.11.06
Posted in Better Me, General, My Immaculate Taste in Music at 9:31 pm by Adriene
Well, not so much. I haven’t posted on here in a couple of weeks, so I thought I’d give an update on things.
Last night, we celebrated Sam’s 30th birthday. He’s number four in our “Smug Marrieds” group to hit the big 3-0 (following Jeffy, Margaret, and my dear husband). Amy rented out the private dining room of La Paz as a surprise to Sam, and we ate ourselves silly on the fajita bar and drank a margarita or five each. Afterwards, we all checked into a hotel, and then headed out to Olive’s to enjoy a martini or five. We had planned to go back to the hotel and party even more in the suite that Amy, Sam, Jeremy, and Kara were sharing, but Jeff and I (and Spencer and Lisa) were old and tired and went to sleep instead. Haha. But, in all, we had a nice time. (I’m trying my best to be nice to everyone as they turn thirty, since I know I’m going to be the last in that group to hit it by far! :lol:)
I’m down another clothing size! My weight hasn’t fallen off as fast as it did at first, but at least I know I’m shrinking, or at least it’s moving around. I’m about to hand over most of my 14’s to someone else, since I’m back in 12’s now - that officially means I’m the smallest I’ve been in three years. One more size to go to hit the size I was when Jeff and I got married (five and a half years ago!). 
Keane’s releasing a new CD next week, and I am beyond stoked about it. I’ve heard five of the songs from it, and they’re different than Hopes and Fears, to be sure, but they are still very good. I like to see a band experiment and evolve rather than do a carbon copy of what they know “works” (see also: U2). I’ll probably be posting a review of it here after I get my grubby little hands on it and have a chance to absorb it.
On a similar note, it looks like I’m going to have a fairly dismal Summer Concert Season. (Boo!) I guess I can hold out hope that Keane will tour after they release the CD, but it looks like most of their summer dates are in Europe, with about five US dates in late June/early July. Guess I should hope for a fall tour. Other than that, not much else going on for me, concert-wise. Le sigh.
So, that’s what’s been up with me the past couple of weeks. Not anything earth-shattering, but hey, I guess at this point in life, it’s not necessarily a bad thing to have a lull every now and then.
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